- Tocqueville presents democratization as an unstoppable process that will eventually replace oligarchy.
- Mill views representative government as progress. The "better" or more advanced a civilization becomes the closer they get to representative governments. Therefore, democracy no only has pre-requisites but it is inherently good.
- Tocqueville argues that democracy is a way to view and use power.
- Mill thinks of democracy as a bureaucracy of representative institutions.
- Tocqueville's problems:
Tyranny of the majority (demos)
Super-centralization
- Mill's problems:
Class legislation (aka tyranny of the majority, but majority meaning any one class, not just the poor)
Lack of Intelligence
Tocqueville vs. Mill
- Tocqueville presents democratization as an unstoppable process that will eventually replace oligarchy.- Mill views representative government as progress. The "better" or more advanced a civilization becomes the closer they get to representative governments. Therefore, democracy no only has pre-requisites but it is inherently good.
- Tocqueville argues that democracy is a way to view and use power.
- Mill thinks of democracy as a bureaucracy of representative institutions.
- Tocqueville's problems:
Tyranny of the majority (demos)
Super-centralization
- Mill's problems:
Class legislation (aka tyranny of the majority, but majority meaning any one class, not just the poor)
Lack of Intelligence